Wireless over 10+ miles (Mr. Bandel?)

[David Bandel]

On 10/12/06, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 13:51, David Bandel wrote:
> > More questions, just holler.
>
> Thanks David.  I knew I hollered at the right one on this
> (no offense to you, Bruce).  Let's see, thats....
>
> $330 * 2 for the WRAP boxen             = $660 + s/h
> $49.99 * 2 for the antennae             = $99.98 + s/h
> $39.99 * 2 for lightning prot.          = $79.98 + s/h
> $100 for antenna tower (ish?)           = $100
> $??? for decent coax and ethernet cable
>
> Totalling roughly $1k, depending on how big the tower needs to be.  I'll shoot
> for 60 foot on my end, because I don't control the other end.
>
> Doable.  Not ideal, but it should work if needs be.  We'll see what makes
> sense after these cable folk give one last try.  This is at least improvement
> over "you live WHERE?"
>
> But I'd be willing to drop $2k to set up an affordable high-speed Internet
> connection.
>
> Do you notice any real latency using wireless at 22mi?

PING 64.117.232.227 (64.117.232.227) 1472(1500) bytes of data.
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=6.88 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=6.54 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=6.55 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=4 ttl=62 time=6.68 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=5 ttl=62 time=6.47 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=6 ttl=62 time=6.51 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=7 ttl=62 time=22.9 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=8 ttl=62 time=6.69 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=9 ttl=62 time=6.69 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=10 ttl=62 time=6.73 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=11 ttl=62 time=6.70 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=12 ttl=62 time=6.82 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=13 ttl=62 time=6.72 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=14 ttl=62 time=7.06 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=15 ttl=62 time=6.74 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=16 ttl=62 time=6.71 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=17 ttl=62 time=6.61 ms
1480 bytes from 64.117.232.227: icmp_seq=18 ttl=62 time=6.75 ms

--- 64.117.232.227 ping statistics ---
18 packets transmitted, 18 received, 0% packet loss, time 17000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.472/7.603/22.953/3.726 ms

This is my main link that always has lots of traffic.  Traceroute for
this ping is:
traceroute to 64.117.232.227 (64.117.232.227), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.255.15  1.149 ms  0.850 ms  0.832 ms
 2  172.16.2.2  2.345 ms  2.495 ms  2.169 ms
 3  64.117.232.227  3.373 ms  3.306 ms  3.173 ms

192.168.255.15 is the first radio
172.16.2.2 is the second radio at 22 mi away
64.117.232.227 is a third radio at 12 mi from the second radio

rx rate: 1317 KB/sec  (Time left: 0 seconds)
(that's kilobytes per second w/ traffic on the link)

Folks that have sip and iax phones connected through my radios to the
Asterisk server and into C&W copper tell me sound quality is better
than a hardwired C&W phone (not sure how, but that's what I'm told).

That enough data for you?

As for towers, look at the trylon towers.  I have several of them I
picked up from a scrap dealer and they are great.  20' sections.  Bury
half of one and continue up.  You'll want to guy this after about 40
feet, although trylon says it can go unguyed up to 70+ (they're nuts,
too much sway for me at 60 feet unguyed).  Will be a bit more than
$100, though.  Try about $100/10 feet installed.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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